Advocate Health Care social media community engagement guidelines

Thank you for participating and engaging with Advocate Health Care on social media. Comments and engagement on our social media platforms are welcomed and encouraged, but we ask that you treat others with respect.

For the privacy of users, please be advised that all posts on our social media channels will be publicly available on the web and therefore publicly accessible.

Advocate Health Care reserves the right to delete postings, or block users, that it deems, in its sole discretion, to be slanderous, unlawful, obscene, hateful, soliciting, threatening, abusive, harassing or infringing upon another's rights, including but not limited to intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. Advocate Health Care also may remove from discussion threads any comments that are off-topic, inaccurate, repetitive, advertisements or spam.

By posting any content on any Advocate Health Care social media site, you grant to Advocate Health Care the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display such content and the right to create derivative works from your content, edit or modify such content and use such content for any purpose. As it relates to patient information and data, Advocate Health Care will receive written/signed permission prior to reproducing or sharing content posted on Advocate Health Care channels.

The information provided by Advocate Health Care on these platforms is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended as an endorsement or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. You are encouraged to contact a health care professional about your personal health condition. If you are experiencing a medical emergency and are located in the U.S., please call 911.

By engaging in our social media platforms, you agree that you are also bound by the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy applicable to the Advocate Health Care website. 

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